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You read that right. Sprinkles Cupcakes is expanding their hours. To celebrate, they will give away cupcakes, one per person, from 8 to 9 p.m. tonight (Thursday) and Friday. You can choose from any flavor in the case, and you don’t even have to buy anything else.

The Dallas Sprinkles is at 4020 Villanova Drive in The Plaza at Preston Center (Preston Road at Northwest Highway).

While our own Leslie Brenner has become downright willowy on her restaurant critic’s diet, another Dallas foodie has been busy getting trim. Pappas Bros. sommelier Jason Hisaw (right) shows off his slimmed-down physique in the new issue of Men’s Health. Complete with before and after pictures!

Guess what showed up on my front porch this morning unannounced. A little box holding two Sprinkles cupcakes. Both are red velvet, presumably for Valentine’s Day.

One is vegan and substitutes soymilk, tofu-based cream cheese and coconut oil for the dairy products. The other is gluten-free, made with gluten-free flour. If you know someone with these special dietary needs, the cupcakes are nearly indistinguishable from the regular ones.

I say nearly. Maybe someone could detect the difference. I thought they tasted as good as the originals. Sprinkles will start selling them on Monday.

Blue Velvet cupcakes, to be exact. That’s what Sprinkles will be selling Sept. 12-19. It’s for a Dallas Cowboys promotion. All proceeds go to the Salvation Army, and one ‘cake a day will have a silver star inside that entitles the bearer to a dozen Blue Velvet cupcakes and a tour of the new Cowboys Stadium plus a cap and T-shirt. Out of the eight daily winners, one will chosen for the MVP prize, which includes four tickets to the Thanksgiving Day game and assorted paraphernalia.

Yes, but how do they taste? Like a dark chocolate cupcake with cream cheese frosting. Only the cake is blue the way red velvet cake is red. I don’t know yet whether they leave your teeth and tongue blue. (I only sampled.)

Update: Ate a few bites in succession after lunch. They DO turn your tongue blue.

And Tin Star and any other restaurant on the north side of the Plaza at Preston Center, Preston at Northwest Highway. The power’s been off all day, and I don’t know how much of the night. It was off in at least parts of the south side, but I see that Corner Bakery now has its electricity back. I hate to think what a mess it’s going to be at Baskin Robbins – 31 Flavors all running together.

We got a look (okay, and a nibble) at Sprinkle’s “Joy” holiday box, filled with a dozen cakes in four flavors: Chocolate Peppermint, Red Velvet, Coconut, and Vanilla Peppermint. For the record, our tasters loved Chocolate Peppermint the most, Coconut the least.